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Agriculture Industry
Ministers Are Celebrating the ‘Prosperity’ of a Farmer Who Earns One-Fourth the Minimum Wageedit
In June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to farmers in Chhattisgarh via teleconferencing. A woman, Chandramani Kaushik from Kanker in Kanharpuri, told him that due to his policies, her income had doubled. A few days later, ABP news met the woman, and she retracted her earlier statement, saying that her income hadn’t doubled and she was tutored to say that it had. A few days after that, a Times of India (ToI) report with no author and a My Nationreport with an author weighed in on the confusion.
How Punjab’s farmers are changing strategy to cope with climate changeedit
Harsimranjit Brar, 26, has an unforgettable childhood memory of his family’s fields in Fatuhi Khera, a village in Punjab’s Sri Muktsar Sahib district. Just before harvest, it would be a sea of white fluff. Brar’s father, a seasoned farmer, used to cultivate cotton on a 40-acre plot every kharif (monsoon) season.
Firm repays farmer for faulty seedsedit
A farmer who complained to the consumer forum that he had not got even one quintal of cotton against the 15 to 20 promised was awarded a hefty compensation.
Technology in Agriculture
TS to organise awareness programme on farm mechanisationedit
As part of farm mechanisation, the State government has decided to hold an awareness programme on paddy transplanters at Professor Jayashankar Agriculture University on July 17, Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy said here on Saturday.